Images of Semana Santa

The photos here are of the Procesión de Nuestro Señor Jesús Nazareno de Medinaceli, one of the biggest of the Good Friday processions. It’s always a moving spectacle… with moments of anachronism, like when the penitentes pop up their hoods and make a phone call during a rest break. (The one image with a red background is from another procession, that of the Santa Cruz, which cuts across the Plaza Mayor, once site of bullfights and autos de fe…)

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Wonderful photos. I have some that I took last year in Barcelona’s Cathedral Square at the Feast of Corpus Christi, huge, odd, puppet-mannequin figures, little girls in what must have been First Communion dresses, a milling crowd, a procession winding through all the little surrounding streets. . . I’d love to be back again . . . so thanks for the quick, vicarious visit to another Spanish city and its religious drama